Looks like Unity, actually Gnome Shell. So the Unity feel doesn’t have to go away.

More thoughts on the wider ramifications of this topic once I’ve digested it a bit. Also, you can be pretty sure that this will come up in discussion in the next show we record, although inconsiderately they put this news out after we’ve already recorded tomorrow’s show

Did you also try to emulate some of the behaviour? Personally, I love the HUD for applications like Gimp, Inkscape, Kile, etc. They have extensive menu hierarchy, and I only use them occasionally. This seems like it might be difficult to pull into gnome, no?

Frankly I’m not sad to see Unity go. I started using Ubuntu on the desktop in 2005 and stopped in 2009 or so. I still had Ubuntu installed on various machines after that but Unity never felt as responsive as I would have liked. I’m not sure why but it always ran horribly compared to the old Gnome desktop I’d come to love.

I still run Ubuntu on servers but I can’t abide Unity. It made whatever hardware I threw at it feel ancient.

I prefer the CLI and APIs for everything. But It’s a good move from them to stop Unity, because it was everything but. I hope they can refocus the Unity team to, for example, Virtual Reality and/or Voice Recognition on Linux.

Since 2005 i used ubuntu on the desktop, switched to Mint in 2012. I’ve just gone back to ubuntu gnome after some mishaps using Suse the past few months (thanks, Bryan Lunduke for making me ;-).
Very happy hearing the news of Ubuntu going back to gnome, hope it will bring them focus again.

Disclaimer, I use Debian, Ubuntu, Suse and CentOS happily on a variety of servers.

I for one used Unity and enjoyed it on the laptop. But I think Gnome3 is also awesome, so not feeling too bad.

I liked Mark Shuttleworth’s letter. I think he was very honest in that is was just not working out. It was a great try, but looks like it is time to move on. I will miss the flame wars with other WM users

Very very worried about Mark’s statements on the community recently. Hard to argue with too, we really do have a massive problem with vocal negative minorities in our community. Worried that Canonical is cutting its losses with the Linux desktop entirely, or at least winding down its leading role.

But saying that I can understand why people do like it and I’m fine with that. I like Marmite and coding in C so I’m partly batshit crazy and probably shouldn’t be listened to

It will likely live on for a while in forks and Gnome/KDE emulation of behaviour for people who miss it. That is the great thing about Open Source. I wouldn’t be surprised if there is an unofficial Ubuntu fork with Unity (or at least an emulation of Unity behaviour).